Climates experts gathered in Dubai for the 28th Congress of the Parties. Below, you’ll find the latest news, in-depth analyses, and explainers of COP28.
Climate Central scientists assessed worldwide air temperatures over 12 months (1 November 2022 to 31 October 2023), and found that with an average warming of more than 1.3°C, the past 12 months were the hottest on record.
As scientists predicted, these heatwave conditions have made their way to the side of the hemisphere during our summer months, because we have entered the El Niño period.
Given the role carbon capture will likely need to play in the coming decades if the world is to limit global warming — and its prominence at COP28 climate talks, Bloomberg Green is offering a cheat sheet to help demystify a market that could be worth as much as $1 trillion by the end of the 2040s, according to BloombergNEF.
COP28 is demonstrating the lengths that fossil fuel companies and their political allies will go to defend continued exploitation of fossil fuels. It is indicative of a similar campaign being waged in South Africa. A few corporations and politicians are lining up to profit from oil, coal and gas deals. They will leave the people of South Africa with the costs.
Children’s bodies and minds are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. They need to be placed at the centre of climate action strategies at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework on Climate Change and beyond.
Global experts unite at COP28 to grant the world’s greatest deep freeze far-reaching rights equal to humans.
Five major global “tipping points” are in danger of being crossed at current levels of warming, a new study warns, leaving humanity at an inflection point between two potential futures.
As the 28th Conference of the Parties reaches its midpoint, more than $57bn has been mobilised in new pledges and commitments to combat climate change.
Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking … This is a selection of images from our planet, over the last 24 hours.
Tipping points present huge risks in the climate and ecological emergency, but also huge opportunities to transition to more sustainable futures. That’s the key message of a new Global Tipping Points Report, which will be released at COP28. Understanding what this means for Africa both underscores stark warnings about the vulnerabilities of the continent to climate change, and highlights opportunities for African communities, businesses and governments to be leaders and innovators in addressing these challenges. Critically, it also raises important challenges to the narratives of sustainability that dominate global discussions.
COP28, under the UAE presidency, has prioritised Food Systems and Agriculture. The agri-food systems contribute about one-third of greenhouse gas emissions; they are also highly vulnerable to climate impacts and have significant potential for positive climate action.
Russia used disinformation and unsubstantiated claims in a plan to lobby officials in at least a dozen countries as part of an unsuccessful bid to retain a seat on the board of the international chemical weapons watchdog.
Sustainable use of wild meat value chains contributes to carbon sequestration and local climate regulation. Wildlife economies have more diverse revenue streams than conventional agriculture. Boosting wild meat consumption will help rewilding and restoring landscapes.
South Africa needs double to triple the amount annually pledged by a group of developed countries at COP26 to ditch coal in favour of renewable energy sources, according to The South African Climate Finance Landscape 2023 report.
As the photographer you are an observer. You’re observing not just the negotiations, but the people, the place, the dynamics.
Money is currently pouring into Africa and the Global South to achieve climate mitigation via ecosystem-based approaches. This is both an opportunity and a problem for Africa.
As scientists call for action on the dramatic changes occurring in the cryosphere, it’s time to take notice and act now to prevent irreversible loss of polar ice sheets, glaciers, snow, sea ice and permafrost with disastrous consequences for society and nature.
In the lead-up to this year’s Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP28, this series on climate change and development in Africa presented by the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance aims to help readers in understanding the nuances of the debate on how to respond to the systemic impacts of climate change.
After another year of record-breaking climate events and extreme weather changes, discussions and negotiations on climate change will take place at the annual Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UN is hosting its 28th annual COP from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which itself has been a source of controversy because the UAE is one of the world’s top oil-producing countries, and is therefore centrally linked to the high levels of carbon emission.
From the science behind climate change to the nuances of international negotiations, this interactive quiz on COP28 and climate change is your passport to mastering the essentials and intricacies of the latest global climate summit.
Delegates at the COP28 summit on Thursday adopted a framework for the World Bank-hosted fund after months of negotiations. The United Arab Emirates, this year’s host nation, said it would contribute $100 million, alongside another $100 million from Germany. The UK committed £40 million ($50 million) and Japan added $10 million.
Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking … This is a selection of images from our planet, over the last 24 hours.
From the science behind climate change to the nuances of international negotiations, this interactive quiz on COP28 and climate change is your passport to mastering the essentials and intricacies of the latest global climate summit.
By Ethan van Diemen
From the science behind climate change to the nuances of international negotiations, this interactive quiz on COP28 and climate change is your passport to mastering the essentials and intricacies of the latest global climate summit.
By Ethan van Diemen
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